Is My Son Gay or Is a Phase? | Psychology Today

Contents:

• ‘SNL’S’ GAY HISTORY: ALL 4 LGBTQ CAST MEMBERS
• GAY BARS SAN ANTON
• BEFORE CARL NASSIB, MICHAEL SAM WAS THE NFL’S FIRST OPENLY GAY DRAFT PICK. HE NEVER PLAYED A REGULAR SEASON GAME.
• IS BEG GAY A S?
• SCIENTISTS FD DNA DIFFERENC BETWEEN GAY MEN AND THEIR STRAIGHT TW BROTHERS
• SYNONYMS OF GAY
• IS MY SON GAY OR IS A PHASE?
• DOORSTEP VISS CHANGE ATTUS ON GAY MARRIAGE
• PANEL NSIRS LIFTG FDA BAN ON BLOOD DONATNS BY GAY MEN
• FDA TO EASE LONGTIME BAN ON BLOOD DONATNS OM GAY MEN
• RAPPER BLUEFACE ACC HIS 6-YEAR-OLD SON OF BEG GAY BEE HE IGNORED WOMEN DANCG BIKIS
• WATCH KKD’S GAY SON LEAD LGBTQ+ PROTT LONDON
• JAGUARS STRENGTH ACH KEV MAXEN OUT AS GAY A FIRST FOR U.S.-BASED PRO LEAGU

‘SNL’S’ GAY HISTORY: ALL 4 LGBTQ CAST MEMBERS

Michael Michd, thor of books on gay actors Sal Meo and Alan Su, has kdly wrten the tribut to the four — unt 'em, four! Even though he intified as gay om childhood, he beme engaged to a woman for a short time. He was the first openly gay performer on SNL, and there was no other for nearly 27 years.

Terry experienced problems on SNL bee of his sexual orientatn, pecially beg bullied and meaned by homophobic Chevy Chase, who had left the show after one season but who equently returned. Boy, he sure died, you know, he sure went to hell”) and the show’s first openly gay st member, Terry Sweeney (Chase suggted Sweeney star a recurrg sketch where he was weighed to see if he had ntracted AIDS). She first appeared on TV on The Big Gay Sketch Show (2007-2010) and has worked steadily on televisn sce then, gut-starrg on such shows as Maya & Marty, Difficult People, Hudson Valley Ballers, Comedy Bang!

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GAY BARS SAN ANTON

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BEFORE CARL NASSIB, MICHAEL SAM WAS THE NFL’S FIRST OPENLY GAY DRAFT PICK. HE NEVER PLAYED A REGULAR SEASON GAME.

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Seven years before Las Vegas Rairs fensive end Carl Nassib beme the first active NFL player to e out as gay on Monday, an all-Amerin om the Universy of Missouri risked a promisg reer wh a public claratn.

IS BEG GAY A S?

“I am an openly proud gay man, ” Michael Sam, a 24-year-old fensive end, told ESPN and the New York Tim Febary announcement followed a surprisg 12-2 season for Missouri, which won the SEC East and then the Cotton Bowl as Sam was named the SEC fensive player of the year. On Tuday, Sam thanked Nassib for jog the ranks of LGBTQ football players, payg special tribute to the donatn Nassib ma to the Trevor Project, a nonprof foced on suici Vegas Rairs fensive end Carl Nassib announced June 21 on Instagram that he is gay, makg him the first active NFL player to e out.

The NFL particular had faced cricism for allegedly askg prospects about their sexual orientatn and had been acced of hamperg players who spoke out favor of gay many profsnal athlet around the world, cludg several retired NFL players, had e out by 2014, no one who was still playg football had dared to make that move before story rurfaced on Monday when the 28-year-old Nassib, who was drafted by the Cleveland Browns 2016 and now plays for the Rairs, announced that he is gay a vio on Instagram. “Here’s the tth: Everyone ow Michael Sam such a b of gratu, ” Wa Davis, a former NFL rnerback who me out as gay 2012, told The Washgton Post on Monday.

He wasn’t the only gay man who stggled to fd a place the NFL after g retired NFL players have publicly intified as gay, begng wh Dave Kopay, who me out 1975, three years after leavg the sport. Wh the past fifty years, the term gay, as applied to homosexualy, has explod to mastream culture, and we are told that “beg gay” is as much outsi one’s ntrol as “beg short” or havg blon hair.

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” And, “Is sful to engage homosexual activi bee of those attractns?

The problem wh same-sex attractn, or the feelg of “beg gay, ” is that is an attractn to somethg God has forbidn, and any sire for somethg sful ultimately has s roots s. Our world is filled wh forbidn us, cludg the enticement to “be gay.

Some people, who adm to havg thoughts of “beg gay, ” are, for a variety of reasons, not romantilly attracted to members of the oppose sex. The send part of this qutn, “is sful to engage homosexual activi bee of same-sex attractns? Feelg a same-sex attractn is not an active, willful s, but yieldg to that proclivy and engagg homosexual relatns is.

SYNONYMS OF GAY

Our culture assur homosexuals that they were born gay and that nfed sexualy is to be celebrated, not overe. Th we have an entire generatn of children and teens who never knew a time when homosexualy was rightly nsired abnormal.

In elementary and middle schools, is now fashnable to ll onelf “gay” or “bi” or e any number of other faddish sexual labels whout any real unrstandg of their meang—or of the moral and eternal implitns. He also paid the penalty for the s of homosexualy, jt as He did for pri, rape, adultery, and theft.

First Corthians 6:9–10 lists many of the ss that the Corthians once practiced (homosexualy is on the list).

IS MY SON GAY OR IS A PHASE?

” In other words, some of the Corthians, before they were saved, lived gay liftyl; but no s is too great for the cleansg power of J. Homosexual behavr won’t damn a person any more quickly than pri or greed or adultery.

Whout Christ, we are lost, whether gay, straight, or asexual.

Ngun reported that studyg the geic material of 47 pairs of intil male tws, he has intified “epigeic marks” ne areas of the human genome that are strongly lked to male dividuals, said Ngun, the prence of the distct molecular marks n predict homosexualy wh an accuracy of close to 70%. Geicists suggt that together, the human genome and s epigenome reflect the teractn of nature and nurture -- both our fixed herance and our bodi’ flexible rpons to the world -- makg who we ’s study of tws don’t reveal how or when a male tak on the epigenomic marks that distguish him as homosexual. ”To fd the epigenomic markers of male homosexualy, Ngun, a postdoctoral rearcher at UCLA’s Geffen School of Medice, bed through the geic material of 47 sets of intil male tws.

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Thirty-seven of those tw sets were pairs which one was homosexual and the other was heterosexual. But the existence of tw pairs which one is homosexual and the other is not offers strong evince that somethg other than DNA alone fluenc sexual orientatn.

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So they unleashed a mache learng algorhm on the data to search for regulari that distguished the epigenom of homosexual tw-pairs om tws which only one was ne pact regns sttered across the genome, they found patterns of epigenomic differenc that would allow a predictn far more accurate than a random gus of an dividual’s sexual orientatn, Ngun reported Thursday. McCarthy and other experts utned that the disvery of epigenomic marks suggtive of homosexualy is a far cry om fdg the of sexual distctive epigenomic marks observed by Ngun and his lleagu uld rult om some other blogil or liftyle factor mon to homosexual men but unrelated to their sexualy, said Universy of Utah geicist Christopher Gregg. Michael Bailey, who has explored a range of physlogil markers that pot to homosexualy’s origs the womb.

But the existence of intil tw pairs which only one is homosexual “nclively suggt that gen don’t expla everythg, ” Bailey Ngun’s rearch needs to be replited larger studi of tws, advanc the fful procs of better unrstandg how — and when — a boy’s sexual orientatn velops, Bailey me on Twter @LATMelissaHealy and “like” Los Angel Tim Science & Health on rarely get ncer, now scientists thk they know whyThree rearchers w Nobel Prize chemistry for studi of DNA repairMars had a long-lastg seri of lak, NASA’s Cursy rover fds. Vel Sartha (Faye Marsay) and Cta Kaz (Varada Sethu) Andor, (Image cred: Disney Pl)Jungle CiseJungle Cise was so, so, so close to almost havg a character say the words "I'm gay" on screen. (Image cred: Disney+)CellaSure, we might have roasted Disney a ty b our Cella review for once aga pattg themselv on the back for their "first" out gay character (for the seventh time) and not even havg the cency to do anythg beyond an implic gay scriptn.

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And, fally, we do get a (slim) scene where there's at least an acknowledgement of a gay uple the film. Rodriguez) is the fabulo, flamboyant, gay choreographer at East High School. While this character is fun and entertag to watch, some might argue that this is a fairly cliche terpretatn of what gay men are actually like.

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Bex puts a ser damper on Andi and her iends' fun which tak a toll on her first year as a Goodman, one of Andi's bt iends, ma history as the first Disney character to ever say the words "I'm gay, " out loud on televisn. Typilly, if gay characters were reprented at all, their sexual orientatn was merely implied and not voiced. How Olr Brothers Influence HomosexualyHomosexualy might be partly driven by a mother’s immune rponse to her male fet—which creas wh each son she MacGregor / RtersHere’s what we know: Homosexualy is normal.

Between 2 and 11 percent of human adults report experiencg some homosexual feelgs, though the figure vari wily pendg on the survey. Homosexualy exists across cultur and even throughout the animal kgdom, as the thors of a mammoth new review paper on homosexualy wre. Female Japane maqu will even pete tersexually wh mal for exclive accs to female sexual ’s what we don’t know: What, specifilly, someone to bee gay, straight, or somethg between.

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Part of the explanatn is geic, but bee most intil tws of gay people are straight, heredy don’t expla “why” qutn is important bee “there is a strong rrelatn between beliefs about the origs of sexual orientatn and tolerance of non-heterosexualy, ” acrdg to the report thors, who are om seven universi spanng the globe. (When Atlantic ntributor Chandler Burr proposed his 1996 book, A Separate Creatn, that people are born gay, Southern Baptists lled to boytt Disney films and parks prott agast the publisher, Disney subsidiary Hypern.

) It shouldn’t matter whether people “choose” to be gay, but polilly, do—at least for of the most nsistent environmental explanatns for homosexualy is lled the “aternal birth orr effect. ” Essentially, the more olr brothers a man has, the more likely he is to be gay.

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Studi have found that a man whout olr brothers has about a 2 percent chance of beg gay, but one wh four olr brothers has a 6 percent chance. Average prevalence 2013 (Sav-Williams and Vrangalova)Acrdg to the report, Blanchard now plans to tt mothers of gay and straight men for the prence of the antibodi.

If proved out, fetal birth orr uld do a lot to fill the missg explanatns for homosexualy. But gaps will rema, such as why some firstborn sons are gay, why some intil tws of gay sons are straight, and why women are gay, to name jt a review-paper thors do le out one explanatn for homosexualy, however: That tolerance for gay people enurag more people to bee gay.